Release Notes for XWiki 8.4.5
This is the release notes for XWiki Commons, XWiki Rendering, XWiki Platform and XWiki Enterprise. They share the same release notes as they are released together and have the same version.
This is mostly a bug fix release with a few improvements included that were needed to fix bugs.
New and Noteworthy (since XWiki 8.4.4)
Full list of issues fixed and Dashboard for 8.4.5.
XWIKI-14213Groovy class name is shown as content of pageXWIKI-14194Rendering problems when HTML-exporting several pagesXWIKI-14193HTML export fails when there are characters in page name that require URL-encodingXWIKI-14192Typo in DocumentReference#getLocaleDocumentReference()XWIKI-14188Can't install a XAR extension matching feature of a non XAR extensionXWIKI-14175Extension type sheet is brokenXWIKI-14173titlevars.vm does not really follow configured title compatibility modeXWIKI-14171The boolean space.hidden column is declared with a length of 255XWIKI-14164HTML and XAR export does not work well on documents with dots in their space or page names on MySQLXWIKI-14153Provide a way to describe what part of a query parameter should be escapedXWIKI-14152"count" and "unique" filters don't work with uppercase XWQL/HQL keywordsXWIKI-14149Delete UI sometimes proposes to delete wrong children when % is used in page nameXWIKI-14148Add ability to also filter parameters from a QueryXWIKI-14139Rename does not update backlinks in a subwikiXWIKI-14134HTML code appears in the text area for the Comment and Address rows in Edit User, from Administration, CKEditor doesn't loadXWIKI-14126Children of a pages with a dot in the name are not properly identified (children listing, delete) - on mysqlXWIKI-14092Chinese characters will be replaced by # when exporting a page to PDFXWIKI-14063Deletion in the main wiki while using the override feature of the filter app on a subwikiXWIKI-14058Dashboard gadget titles are cut offXWIKI-14050Action buttons are not displayed nicely inside Dashboard gadget "Display"XWIKI-14043com.xpn.xwiki.api.Object#get(String) javadoc is misleading about the type used for displayXWIKI-14040Wiki component registration code test the wrong authorXWIKI-14039UI extension registration code test the wrong authorXWIKI-14038WatchListNotificationsUIX is always displayed lastXWIKI-14033NullpointerException when XWiki initialization failXWIKI-14021The URL factory generate relative URL instead of absolute ones in mail templatesXWIKI-14015Current user is never taken into account for attachment author when importing (with "Add a new version to the existing page" option)XWIKI-14007BaseObject should generate unique id only when neededXWIKI-14006sdoc script binding is not always synchronized with the XWiki ContextXWIKI-14004Edit gadgets with graphical editor does not workXWIKI-13989HTML Export will fail when SSX are inside several nested spacesXWIKI-13988External links does not display nicely in dropdown menuXWIKI-13986Generate an index page for the HTML exportXWIKI-13985Save HTML-exported pages in directories instead of flat at the root levelXWIKI-13976HTML export always generate external URL even for exported documentsXWIKI-13947Asymetric display of an info box when two paragraphs are added insideXWIKI-13932Bad float in PDF might cause PDF attachment to not be indexed by SOLRXWIKI-13679User is still added after error registration has failed due to unknown reasons error code -10XWIKI-13308Diff displayer for extensions is displaying false positives when a page is contained by 2 extensionsXRENDERING-470Allow to disable some emoticonsXCOMMONS-1167Nullpointer when accessing current step offset of a unserialized job progressXCOMMONS-1152IsolatedTestClassLoader may try to initialize the same class several times
Tested Browsers & Databases
Here is the list of browsers we support and how they have been tested for this release:
Browser | Test Result | |
---|---|---|
![]() | Google Chrome | Not Tested |
![]() | Mozilla Firefox | Not Tested |
![]() | Internet Explorer 10 | Not Tested |
![]() | Internet Explorer 11 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
Here is the list of databases we support and how they have been tested for this release:
Database | Test Result | |
---|---|---|
![]() | HyperSQL | Not Tested |
![]() | MySQL 5.7 | Jira Tickets Marked as Fixed in the Release Notes |
![]() | Oracle | Not Tested |
![]() | PostgreSQL | Not Tested |
Known issues
Backward Compatibility and Migration Notes
General Notes
When upgrading make sure you compare your xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and web.xml files with the newest version since some configuration parameters may have been modified or added. Note that you should add xwiki.store.migration=1 so that XWiki will attempt to automatically migrate your current database to the new schema. Make sure you backup your Database before doing anything.
API Breakages
No API breakage since XWiki 8.4.4!
Credits
The following people have contributed code to this release (sorted alphabetically):
Alexandru Cotiugă
Ecaterina Moraru (Valica)
Guillaume Delhumeau
Marius Dumitru Florea
Thomas Mortagne
Vincent Massol